DVDs: Gaslight; Milius; Dexter; Threads

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Gaslight (PG)
★★★★☆
A claustrophobic study in marital cruelty, with suave Anton Walbrook as the
Victorian husband slyly convincing his wife (Diana Wynward) that she’s
insane. The drawing-room menace of Thorold Dickinson’s psychological duel
(restored by the BFI with new extras) does justice to its source author
Patrick Hamilton, and is a notch above the more lavish Ingrid Bergman
remake. (DVD/Blu-ray, out Mon)

Milius (15)
★★★☆☆
“Do I feel lucky?”, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”: just two of
the iconic film quotes written by the ursine, gun-toting maverick of 1970s
cinema, John Milius — or a “teddy bear